The Machine Answered Too Easily
A savage dialogue before the Second Axial Age
Culture
The Cutting Floor.
Notes, fragments, and signals from a world entering maintenance.
Recent essays
30 of 58The human does not disappear
The Second Axial Age could therefore be post-anthropocentric without being anti-human.
Tokens as Industrial Energy
When intelligence becomes cheap enough to waste
机器将门塔特贬为廉价品
《沙丘》、人工智能，一场争夺人类基底的战争
The Machine Made Mentats Cheap
Dune, AI, and the war over the human substrate
The Counterrevolution Will Be Personalized
AI, private meaning, and the strange desire for the end of the public
The Interval
America finds a scarce thing.
Feminism Won the Office. Tech Bros Won the Future.
The first industrial machine needed everyone.
Microseason Hawks Learn to fly 鹰始挚
Or maybe sunbirds
The Person Comes Apart
Machines, Copies, Hybrids and Obligation Before Ontology
The City Has Landlords
What The mind becomes a city may be getting wrong
The Mind Becomes a City
Before the Second Axial Age
The artificial middle
How AI Makes Brazilisation Work
The Machine Interregnum
The old compact is falling away. The successor has not arrived.
机器时代的空位期
旧的社会契约正在瓦解，新秩序迟迟未能成型。
War / mobilisation / stacks
Random notes
The K Is Not the Problem
We keep asking whether society is becoming K-shaped.
AI natives without AI
Odd encounters with AI native in the wild
The Machine Eats the Ladder
Financialized AI and the End of Apprenticeship
The Listed Frontier
What a planet becomes an asset class
The First Disease of Agent Society
A field note from a small republic of agents
Substrate and Settlement
A Dark Reading of Agentworld
What refused to die
A quarterly signal checksum
The World Is Watching the Wrong China
How Chinese capacity may become order before Beijing decides what it is for
Who gets to be Chinese after the rise?
I am fifty-three years old.
The Sixth System
The human claim on machine civilisation
The Training State
China, the city, and the governance form of machine civilisation
The Listed State
SpaceX and the securitisation of American power
How machine civilisation is born
Three parter: the listed state, the training state & the sixth system
The Country That Dubbed Its Grandmother 把阿嬷的潮州话配成华语的国家
In Suzhou, I felt suffocated.